Flarum NextJS Can Be Friends???

hungthinh

Is there any hope that Flarum will use Next.js for the Frontend in the future?? It is modern and high-performance. I see that many big global projects are integrating Next.js as the Frontend.
Thanks,

luceos

hungthinh 2.x is based on mithril again, due to its extensibility and small footprint.

So at least for the coming two years a new frontend technology won't be adopted.

rafaucau

Currently, Flarum can run on basic PHP hosting. Using Next.js would make hosting Flarum more difficult, as you would have to have Node.js in addition.

Flaum is based on Laravel. Laravel has Inertia.js (https://inertiajs.com/). I think that would be a better solution than migrating to NextJS. There is also optional server-side rendering if you have Node.js. Inertia supports React, Vue and Svelte, but it would be possible to create a Mithril driver. And if they were to change frontend technology, I think a better choice would be Svelte instead of React, because of simplicity and performance.

JasperVriends

Actually, Next.js could also be used to talk to the PHP backend by proxying API calls. PHP is performing great these days and is high performance as well. The big issue is only: lot's of users are on shared servers where resources are shared, which could cause PHP to become slow. Running it on your own server and have the optimal settings shouldn't be too difficult 😛

As a React developer myself, I would also be interested to see if Flarum would ever be able to React.js or maybe even Preact.js (which has most of the React JS API's, but has a smaller footprint and is better performant). But, I'm used to Mithril as well so that's fine 🙂

Darkle

JasperVriends Yeah, in fact, https://fnatic.com/community is an example of that approach, and it coincidentally uses Next.js. I remember talking to one of the devs about it a while back, of course it doesn't use the Flarum frontend, just the API with some modifications.